Q. About what time was that?
A. It was in the latter end of December, or the beginning of January.
Q. Do you recollect by whom the application was made?
A. Sir Alexander Cochrane.
Q. What was the purport of it?
A. Sir Alexander came to me twice, I think, if not three times, to urge the appointment of Mr. De Berenger to go to America, for the purpose of applying his talents as a light infantry officer, to the service on which Sir Alexander Cochrane was about to embark.
Q. Were any difficulties started to this application?
A. Great difficulties.
Q. What objection was made to it?
A. I represented——